Abstract
Members of the trypanorhynch cestode genus Grillotia Guiart, 1927 belonging to the Grillotia erinaceus (van Beneden, 1858) species complex are redescribed. The type-species of the genus, G. erinaceus, is redescribed from Raja spp. in the eastern and western north Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The redescription establishes the presence of: an hermaphroditic sac; internal and external seminal vesicles (but absence of an accessory seminal vesicle); a uterine pore; and the attachment of the retractor muscle in the mid-region of the tentacular bulb. G. pseuderinaceus Dollfus, 1969 and G. recurvispinis Dollfus, 1969 from Raja spp. in the Mediterranean are considered to be synonyms of G. erinaceus, following Palm (2004). G. dollfusi Carvajal, 1971 from R. chilensis Guichenot off Chile is redescribed from the paratypes and features of the terminal genitalia, consistent with those of G. erinaceus, are described for the first time. G. musculara (Hart, 1936) is redescribed from new material collected from the type-host, R. rhina (Jordan & Gilbert), off Nanaimo on the western coast of Canada. The features of the terminal genitalia of G. musculara are similar to those of the G. erinaceus group. The morphological features of G. borealis Keeney & Campbell, 2001 from Bathyraja spp. in the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk are summarised and illustrations of this species provided. G. brayi n. sp. is described from Amblyraja radiata from the coasts of Iceland and Britain. The new species differs from other members of the complex in lacking modified hooks 1 and 1′ at the base of the tentacle (differentiating it from G. erinaceus), a long pars vaginalis (differentiating it from G. dollfusi) and uncinate hooks in the band on the external surface of the tentacle (differentiating it from G. musculara). Brief descriptions are provided of two apparently new species of Grillotia currently represented in collections by single specimens.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Bates, R. M. (1990). A checklist of the Trypanorhyncha (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) of the world (1935–1985). National Museum of Wales, Zoological Series, No. 1, 218 pp.
Beveridge, I. (1990). Revision of the family Gilquiniidae Dollfus (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) from elasmobranch fishes. Australian Journal of Zoology, 37, 481–520.
Beveridge, I., Campbell, R. A., & Palm, H. (1999). Preliminary cladistic analysis of genera of the cestode order Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863. Systematic Parasitology, 42, 29–49.
Campbell, R. A., & Beveridge, I. (1987). Hornelliella macropora (Shipley & Hornell, 1906) comb. nov. (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) from Australian elasmobranch fishes, and a re-assessment of the family Hornelliellidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 111, 195–200.
Campbell, R. A., & Beveridge, I. (1994). Order Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863. In L. F. Khalil, A. Jones, & R. A. Bray (Eds.), Keys to the cestode parasites of vertebrates (pp. 51–148). Wallingford: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International.
Carvajal, J. (1971). Grillotia dollfusi sp. n. (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) from the skate, Raja chilensis, from Chile, and a note on G. heptanchi. Journal of Parasitology, 57, 1269–1271.
Carvajal, J., & Cattan, P. E. (1978). Occurrence of the plerocercus of Grillotia dollfusi Carvajal, 1971 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) in the Chilean hake Merluccius gayi (Guichenot 1848). Journal of Parasitology, 64, 695.
Dollfus, R.-P. (1942). Etudes critiques sur les Tétrarhynques du Muséum de Paris. Archives du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 19, 1–466.
Dollfus, R.-P. (1969). De quelques cestodes tétrarhynques (hétéracanthes et pécilacanthes) récoltés chez des poissons de la Méditerranée. Vie et Milieu, Série A, 20, 491–542.
Eschmeyer, W. N. (1998). Catalog of fishes. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 2905 pp.
Fuhrmann, O. (1933). Cestoidea. In W. Kükenthal (Ed.), Handbuch der Zoologie: eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreichs (pp. 141–416). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin.
Hart, J. F. (1936). Cestoda from fishes of Puget Sound II. Tetrarhynchoidea. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 60, 369–387.
Johnstone, J. (1912). Tetrarhynchus erinaceus Van Beneden I. Structure of adult and larval worm. Parasitology, 6, 364–415.
Jones, M. K., Beveridge, I., Campbell, R. A., & Palm, H. (2004). Terminology of the sucker-like organs of the scolex of trypanorhynch cestodes. Systematic Parasitology, 59, 121–126.
Joyeux, C., & Baer, J. G. (1936) Cestodes. Faune de France, 30, 1–613.
Keeney, D. B., & Campbell, R. A. (2001). Grillotia borealis sp. n. (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) from five species of Bathyraja (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae) in the North Pacific Ocean with comments on parasitic enteric distribution. Folia Parasitologica, 48, 21–29.
Linton, E. (1911). Notes on the distribution of Entozoa of North American marine fishes. Proceedings of the 7th International Zoological Congress, Boston, 1907, pp. 686–696 (cited in Dollfus, 1942).
Linton, E. (1913). Cestoda. In F. B. Summer, R. C. Osburn, & L. J. Cole (Eds.), A catalogue of the marine fauna of Woods Hole and vicinity. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, 31, 585–589.
Linton, E. (1924). Notes on cestode parasites of sharks and rays. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 64, 1–114.
Palm, H. W. (1995). Untersuchungen zur Systematik von Rüsselbandwürmen (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) aus atlantischen Fischen. Berichte aus dem Institut für Meereskunde an der Christian-Albrechts Universität, Kiel, 92, 69–79.
Palm, H. W. (2004). The Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863 (710 pp). Bogor: PKSPL-IPB Press.
Palm, H. W., & Schröder, P. (2001). Cestode parasites from the elasmobranchs Heptranchias perlo and Deania from the Great Meteor Bank, central east Atlantic. Aquatic Living Resources, 14, 137–144.
Pintner, T. (1929). Tetrarhynchus erinaceus. Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaftlichen Wien, 61, 186–188.
Pintner, T. (1931). Wennigbekanntes und Unbekanntes von Russelbandwürmern II. Sitzungsberichte aus dem Mathematische Naturwissen Klasse der Akademie der Wissenschaftlichen, Wien, Abt 1, 140, 777–820.
Robins, C. R., Bailey, R. M., Bond, C. E., Brooker, J. R., Lachner, E. A., Lea, R. N., & Scott, W. B. (1991). Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada (Vol. 20, 183 pp). Maryland: American Fisheries Society. Special Publication.
Schmidt, G. D. (1986). Handbook of tapeworm identification. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
van Beneden, P.-J. (1858). Mémoires sur les vers intestinaux. Supplément, Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris, 2(1), 1–376.
Vaullegeard, A. (1899). Recherches sur les Tétrarhynques. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie, 19, 187–376.
Whittaker, F. H., Carvajal, J., & Apkarian, R. A. (1982). Scanning electron microscopy of the scolex of Grillotia dollfusi Carvajal, 1971 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha). Journal of parasitology, 68, 1173–1175.
Yamaguti, S. (1959). Systema helminthum II. The cestodes of vertebrates (860 pp). New York: Interscience Publishers.
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank Eileen Harris (BMNH), Eric Hoberg (USNPC), Tomás Scholz (IPCAS), Helmut Sattman (NHMV), Janine Caira (LRP) and Jimmy Cassone (MNHN) for providing the museum specimens used in this study. Rod Bray is particularly thanked for his extensive collections of species of the genus and his patience in providing collection details. Jean Mariaux and Alain de Chambrier (MHNG) are sincerely thanked for their hospitality and access to material in their collections. This revision benefited from no financial support whatsoever.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Beveridge, I., Campbell, R.A. Revision of the Grillotia erinaceus (van Beneden, 1858) species complex (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha), with the description of G. brayi n. sp.. Syst Parasitol 68, 1–31 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-006-9082-2
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-006-9082-2